Sketching Domestic and Wild Cats Pen and Pencil Techniques

An expert instructor demonstrates the geometric structure of feline bodies with a simple series of boxes and lines. Suitable for artists at all levels, this guide examines the unique features of domestic cats, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and other cats. Its 59 step-by-step lessons combine descriptive text with more than 400 detailed illustrations.

A Detroit-based industrial electronics engineer, Frank Lohan turned his lifelong interest in sketching and painting into a career in teaching adult classes in art.

Introduction 1. Tools and Materials 2. Copying, Enlarging, Reducing, and Transferring a Subject 3. Pen-and-Ink Techniques 4. Pencil Techniques 5. Finding and Using Reference Materials 6. The Basic Structure of Cats 7. Drawing Domestic Cats 8. Drawing Lions 9. Drawing Tigers 10. Sketching Leopards 11. Sketching Cheetahs 12. Sketching Other African Cats 13. North American Cats 14. Sketching Central and South American Cats 15. Sketching Polecats and Meerkats 16. A Final Word on Pen Techniques Other Books by Frank J. Lohan Index